Jeffrey M. Berry

American Politics, Political Behavior
John Richard Skuse Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1974

Biography

Jeffrey Berry's research has focused on policymaking in Washington, interest groups, Massachusetts politics, nonprofits, and urban government. He is the author of many books, including The Rebirth of Urban Democracy, which won the American Political Science Association’s Gladys Kammerer Award, and Lobbying and Policy Change and A Voice for Nonprofits, each of which received the Leon Epstein Best Book Award. He is also the recipient of the Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award and the Tufts Distinguished Scholar Award. His most recent work is The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups, co-edited with Sandy Maisel.

Courses

PS 15, "Sophomore Seminar: Politics in the City"
PS 101, "Presidency and the Executive Branch"
PS 102, "Congress, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy"
PS 113, "Nonprofits and Civil Society"
PS 118, "New Media, New Politics"

Publications & Working Papers

The Outrage Industry:

• "Understanding the Rise of Talk Radio" (with Sarah Sobieraj), PS: Political Science and Politics 44 (October 2011). Copyright Cambridge University Press
• "From Incivility to Outrage: Political Discourse in Blogs, Talk Radio, and Cable News" (with Sarah Sobieraj), Political Communication 28 (February 2011)

Strengthening America's Nonprofits Project:

• A Voice for Nonprofits (Brookings Institution 2003)
• Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook (Aspen Institute 2003)
• "The Lobbying Law is More Charitable Than They Think," (Washington Post)
• "Nonprofits Groups Shouldn't Be Afraid to Lobby," (Chronicle of Philanthropy)
• Lobbying and Charities: a Quiz

Lobbying and Policy Change:

• Lobbying and Policy Change (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
• Reviews and Blogs on Lobbying and Policy Change
• Project website, Advocacy and Public Policymaking

Urban Politics and Policymaking:

• "Civil Society and Sustainable Cities" (with Kent E. Portney), paper delivered at the Princeton Conference on Environmental Politics, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, December, 2011
• "The Group Basis of City Politics" (with Kent E. Portney), paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2011
• "Power and Interest Groups in City Politics", Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Kennedy School of Government

Elite Interviewing:

• "Validity and Reliability in Elite Interviewing," PS (December, 2002)

The New Liberalism:

• The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups (Brookings Institution, 1999)
• Newsweek article about The New Liberalism

Surveys and Research Documents:

• Surveying Nonprofits: A Methods Handbook (Aspen Institute, 2003)
• Interview protocols for Power and Interest Groups in City Politics:
  • Administrators
  • City Councilors
  • Group Advocates
• Interview protocols for Lobbying and Policy Change
• Questionnaires for "Cities Face the Future" project
  • Administrators
  • City Councilors
  • Group Advocates

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